<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp60f4a4a8yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydpddc8d110MsoNormal">How Women are Lost in Historic Cemeteries</p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->She gets married. Without her birth name on a monument,
she can be hard to find if you don’t have her marriage records. She could be
near her birth family or across town in her husband’s family cemetery. In
either case it will take some sleuthing to find her.</p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Her husband dies before her. Statistically, most
wives outlive their husbands, often by a decade or more. She has a lovely stone
done for her husband’s grave but then no one gets around to doing one for her.
She is often buried right next to him, unmarked, and eventually forgotten.
Unless the cemetery keeps good interment records that are searchable, it may
be very hard to find her.</p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->She gets married again. She may have had her
name engraved on her first husband’s stone, expecting to eventually join him,
but life happens and she marries someone else. If she is buried with her second
husband under his name, it is easy to assume this is a different person
altogether, especially if she is in a different cemetery. If she doesn’t get a
terminal date engraved with the first husband it looks like she has disappeared.</p>
<p class="ydpddc8d110MsoNormal">We have multiple cases like these in our cemetery,
especially #2, so it is important to keep these possibilities in mind when
doing cemetery research related women’s history.</p>
<p class="ydpddc8d110MsoNormal">Charlotte Lehan, President<br>
Pleasant View Cemetery Association<br>
Sherwood, Oregon</p></div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="ydp60f4a4a8signature"><div style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr">Charlotte Lehan</div><div dir="ltr">29786 SW Lehan Court</div><div dir="ltr">Wilsonville, OR 97070</div><div dir="ltr">503-313-8040</div></div></div></div></div></body></html>